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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times

By Michael Burleigh

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About the book

A gripping tour d'horizon of the state of the world as it is in 2017 from an acclaimed historian.In the decades since the end of World War II, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the 21st century--first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath and, second, the financial crash of 2008--have threatened the general acceptance that continued progress under the ben...Show more

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9781509847921

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Pan Macmillan

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2017

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